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When you rub your hands together on a cold day you use friction to convert kinetic energy into thermal energy?
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∙ 12y ago
You are converting mechanical energy into thermal energy. This is why your hands will feel warmer after rubbing them together.
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You convert kinetic energy into thermal energy when you rub two sticks together because?
Kinetic energy is movement energy. So when you rub two sticks together, the rubbing is the kinetic energy. The friction that this causes releases heat. Heat is thermal energy. So due to friction you can convert kinetic energy into thermal energy by rubbing sticks together.
How does a contracting protostar convert gravitational energy into thermal energy?
Sliding friction tends to convert kinetic energy into thermal energy, thermal energy being heat, kinetic energy being movement.
What type of energy is produced when you rub your hands together?
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. The change in temperature produced by rubbing your hands together is called friction, and it is the conversion of chemical energy in your cells into kinetic energy (The force that makes you rub your hands together) and that kinetic energy is partially converted into thermal energy. The conversion of kinetic to thermal is called friction.
What Can cause kinetic energy to change to thermal energy?
Friction can cause kinetic energy to change into thermal energy
What enery tranformation takes place when rubbing your habds together?
thermal energychemical energy is transferred to thermal, sound, and motion energy. Thermal
You convert kinetic energy into thermal energy when you rub two sticks together because?
Kinetic energy is movement energy. So when you rub two sticks together, the rubbing is the kinetic energy. The friction that this causes releases heat. Heat is thermal energy. So due to friction you can convert kinetic energy into thermal energy by rubbing sticks together.
How does a contracting protostar convert gravitational energy into thermal energy?
Sliding friction tends to convert kinetic energy into thermal energy, thermal energy being heat, kinetic energy being movement.
How does contracting a protostar convert gravitational energy into thermal energy?
Sliding friction tends to convert kinetic energy into thermal energy, thermal energy being heat, kinetic energy being movement.
What do brakes do?
A vehicals brakes convert kinetic energy into thermal energy through friction and dissipate the thermal energy into the atmosphere
What type of energy is produced when you rub your hands together?
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. The change in temperature produced by rubbing your hands together is called friction, and it is the conversion of chemical energy in your cells into kinetic energy (The force that makes you rub your hands together) and that kinetic energy is partially converted into thermal energy. The conversion of kinetic to thermal is called friction.
What can cause kinetic energy to change into thermal energy?
Friction can cause kinetic energy to change into thermal energy
What Can cause kinetic energy to change to thermal energy?
Friction can cause kinetic energy to change into thermal energy
What two types of energy do you get from friction?
thermal, and kinetic
When an object loses kinetic energy due to a force of kinetic friction is the loss of kinetic energy transformed primarily into potential or thermal energy?
Kinetic friction is associated with thermal energy (and sound or light).
What enery tranformation takes place when rubbing your habds together?
thermal energychemical energy is transferred to thermal, sound, and motion energy. Thermal
When you rub your hands together what kinds of energy are you making?
you are changing the kinetic energy from your muscles into heat energy by the property of friction
What are two types of energy generated due to friction?
thermal and kinetic
